A2KF Press
A2KF Press is the publishing imprint of the Access to Knowledge Foundation. It does not charge readers, teachers, students, or authors.
Its first task is The Textbook Project: a practical answer to the recurring problem that quality textbooks are too often expensive, linguistically or regionally inaccessible, or reachable only through institutions and informal copying.
The press publishes peer-reviewed academic work without paywalls, beginning with textbooks and expanding to other scholarly formats where open access serves a clear public and educational purpose.
Authors retain intellectual control of their work. Readers receive lawful access under open licences. Translation, regional adaptation, revision, and citation are treated as part of the publication model rather than later additions.
The press is deliberately lean: it exists to support review, editing, access, and dissemination, not to become another intermediary extracting value from authors and readers.
Mission
To publish rigorous academic work in forms that remove avoidable barriers to use: cost, language, regional fit, institutional access, and uncertainty about lawful reuse.
Our approach
- Free of cost: no charges for readers, teachers, students, or authors
- Peer review: scholarly and pedagogical review before publication
- Multiversion publishing: curated translations, regional examples, and country-specific literature where needed
- Living texts: transparent correction and revision after publication
- Author control: intellectual responsibility remains with the author, and the public value of the work is not captured by a middleman
Access to Knowledge Foundation
The Textbook Project is an initiative of the Access to Knowledge Foundation (A2KF).
A2KF works to expand access to knowledge through open publishing, education, and public-interest scholarship. In this project, that mission is applied to a concrete object: the textbook that students are expected to read, teachers are expected to assign, and many readers cannot lawfully or affordably obtain.
A2KF does not charge anyone for access or publication. The Textbook Project is therefore built around a simple commitment: remove price, language, regional fit, and lawful-access barriers without lowering scholarly standards.
The Textbook Project is the foundation's platform for peer-reviewed open-access academic textbooks — beginning with public international law and designed to grow as further textbooks and curated versions are added across languages, countries, and legal traditions.